[Newspoetry] World Trade Mini-Conference and Fundraiser for WTO Protest

[chyn at onthejob.net]

** note: the FUNDRAISING DINNER HAS BEEN CHANGED from this Sat. to
** NEXT SAT night 6 PM.  Please spread the word to all those
** you alerted about a dinner this weekend. my apologies.

The School for Designing a Society is hosting three events in upcoming
weeks, to raise awareness and funds for our trip to Seattle at the end of
the month to protest the WTO. 
(info about this provided at the end of this message)

You are cordially invited to attend:
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A Mini-Conference on the Global Economy  

Sat. Nov 13, 2 - 5 PM  
409 N. Race St, Urbana

speakers include: 
Peter Miller, Penny Hanna, Michael Brun, Carl Estabrook, and Mike Lehman
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A Fundraising Dinner for local activists' trip to protest the WTO
in the form of an elaborate all-vegetarian feast, accompanied by live
music and performance. 

Sat, Nov 20, 6 PM.  
409 N. Race St., Urbana.
Sliding scale: $10-$50.
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An Evening of Acoustic Music, featuring the Prince Myshkins 

Sunday, November 28, 8 PM  at the Channing-Murray Foundation's Red
Herring Coffee House
1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana.
Sliding scale: $3 to $300.  $10 suggested donation.
CD sales will also benefit the anti-WTO effort.
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THE WTO
The World Trade Organization (WTO), the world's most powerful legislative
body, will be holding a ministerial summit in Seattle, Washington, from
November 29, 1999, through December 3, 1999. This meeting promises to
shape the rules of the global economy for decades to come.  The WTO, a
non-elected and undemocratic power, has already begun to set the terms for
national and transnational legislation, subverting the rights of workers,
negating the power of democratic elections, and undermining smaller
economic communities around the world.

OUR TRIP TO THE PROTEST
Seventeen students, teachers, and activists from Champaign-Urbana's School
for Designing a Society are headed to Seattle that same week to join in a
seven-day festival of active resistance.  This series of marches,
protests, performances, and acts of civil disobedience against the WTO and
its policies will be attended by activists from around the globe.   



thank you, 

danielle chynoweth